France was one of the largest international delegations at BIO International Convention 2013, the leading international event for life science professionals, and had over 350m² of exhibition space. more

PREDA and the Paris Region Regional Council are taking part in Europe’s "Boo-Games: Boosting the European Games Industry" project. more

The 3rd Matchmaking in the Cloud event was held last May 23rd at the Paris Region Economic Development Agency, and once again it closed with a host of partnerships in the offing. more

An impressive Paris Region delegation is attending the biotechnology sector's leading international event.

Meet us in Chicago, French Pavilion, Level A, #2023 more

Last April 15th, PREDA held the In-Cosmetics business tour with help from Reed Expo during the In Cosmetics international tradeshow in Paris. more

There was a strong Paris Region presence at this year’s MIPIM, the international real-estate tradeshow for property professionals held in Cannes from March 12th to 15th, 2013. With 20,000 participants hailing from 79 countries, attendance at the event was up as compared to last year, bringing together real-estate developers and investors from all over the world for four days of intensive networking. more

The Paris Region Economic Development Agency, in partnership with ECO-EMBALLAGES (the eco-agency which organises the sifting, selective sorting and recycling of packaging throughout France), held a workshop on Thursday March 21st intended for Paris Region businesses and involving packaging eco-design. more

Paris and San Francisco are committed to a close collaboration, to deploy solutions and address challenges of the City of the 21st Century (pollution, waste, traffic, energy, mobility management, etc.). more

For the first time since its inception, the TAT Congress, a world-renowned science convention for therapies targeted at cancer, was held in Paris from March 4h to 6th. more

72,000 visitors hailing from 200 countries showed up to walk the aisles at Mobile World Congress 2013, the world’s greatest mobile telephony event, which took place in Barcelona from February 25th to 28th. more

What is your market potential in the United States? How do you find your initial customers? What distribution strategy should you adopt? How do you raise funds? What will the financial investment be?
Such were the issues being touched upon during an interactive presentation about “Feedback on getting established in the USA”, held by Hubtech21 at the agency’s premises on February 26th. more

The Agency travelled to Quebec in partnership with the QuantValley Association. more

The fifty-eighth European Technology Meeting - Rencontre Européenne de la Technologie - organised on February 21 at the Paris Region Economic Development Agency was devoted to the digital transformation of businesses using APIs (Application Programming Interfaces). more

The Paris Region Lab, in partnership with Agence Parisienne du Climat (APC - Paris Climate Agency), and with the support of the Ville de Paris, has decided to send out a call for projects to the companies operating in this field. The purpose is to lower and optimize energy consumption without however multiplying technological equipment or tools that also in turn use energy. more

The 57th Rencontre Européenne de la Technologie (RET, European Technology Meeting), organised in partnership with the Mov’eo Competitiveness Cluster, took place on November 22 at the Regional Development Agency. The meeting brought together more than thirty participants to discuss the subject of technological innovation in transport systems, with particular emphasis on the automobile industry. more

On monday, december 10th, 2012, Paris Region Economic Development Agency (PREDA) organized a meeting between leaders in the US payment space, BayPay Forum members, and European stakeholders Ingenico, Natural Security, PayPlug and Lobary, who shared mobile payment trends at Atelier BNP Paribas in San Francisco. more

PRIME, the American bureau of the Paris Region Economic Development Agency, has become an ambassador for the Systematic Paris Region competitiveness cluster in the United States. more

PREDA (Paris Region Economic Development Agency) held a morning meeting on the theme of employment law on December 6, the last in a comprehensive series of practical information breakfasts for 2012. more

The Paris Region Economic Development Agency, partnered by the French Society of Automotive Engineers (SIA), organised a VIP Business Tour on December 3, 2012 on the fringes of the CESA international conference on embedded electronics. more

APIdays, Europe’s first international conference specifically dedicated to APIs, took place on December 3 and 4 at EPITA. more

The Paris Region Economic Development Agency, in partnership with Capital Games and supported by the Game Connection, guided a group of 20 special international visitors around the industry’s flagship sites and businesses on the Game Paris Business Tour on November 27, 2012. more

The Tel Aviv bureau of the Paris Region Economic Development Agency (PREDA) organised the Cinema-TV-Animated Film Forum in Tel Aviv on November 17 to 19 with the Tel Aviv Institut Français. more

The Agency attended the ITS World Congress (Intelligent Transport System) held in Vienna from October 22nd to 26th, 2012. more

Paris joins the Top 5 world cities, out of 27 cities that are all capitals of high finance, commerce and culture, and climbs 4 places since 2011. more

The Paris Region is a centre of excellence for the creative industries (audiovisual, video games, films, advertising, photography, music, performing arts, fashion, design, architecture, etc.). 48% of France’s total payroll in the sector is based in the Paris Region, the equivalent to around 500,000 people. more

The PREDA Supervisory Board held a meeting chaired by Robert Lion on October 2nd, and approved the appointment of Sabine ENJALBERT as Managing Director and Executive Board Member. more

Organized by Globale Enterprise on 8, 9 and 10 November in La Bellevilloise, the event is supported by the Paris Region Economic Development Agency and La Fonderie. more

On October 4, 2012 the HORIBA Group unveiled its new site to the public in the Quartier Ouest Polytechnique in Palaiseau. more

The first Payment Innovation Day, which took place on June 21, 2012, was devoted to networking and discussions on technology and the uses and main areas of innovation in the mobile payment sector. The event, which was run by ARD in partnership with BayPay Forum, Finance Innovation and the TES (Secure Electronic Transactions) Competitiveness Cluster, brought together many of the major players in the payment industry. more

The second “Matchmaking in the Cloud” meeting held last June 7th at Paris Region Economic Development Agency premises ended on a clearly successful note, opening the way to a host of partnerships. more

Paris and all of the Paris Region hit a new record in 2011 with 792,000 convention attendees (up 18% in one year) and 996 events*. more

The Paris Region Economic Development Agency attended the International Electric Vehicle Symposium 26, which took place in Los Angeles, may 6-9, 2012. more

PREDA travelled to Japan in partnership with the Yvelines General County Council and the Mov’eo Tec Foundation in order to meet with automotive companies whose business is related to issues of interest to the MOV’EO competitiveness cluster. more

From May 20th to 23rd, 2012, the Ubifrance Israel office, in partnership with the Paris Region Economic Development Agency’s Tel Aviv office, will be organising a road show in the field of Information and Communications Technology. more

Ringbow was the lucky winner of the contest organised by our office in Tel Aviv and won a 5-day stay for 2 to take part in the Futur en Seine festival held next June 14th to 24th: this is a tremendous opportunity for Ringbow to meet French and international ordering parties, service providers and innovative companies. more

Autolib', the self-service car rental service available throughout Paris and in 46 neighbouring municipalities, is slated to be available to businesses very soon. more

Futur en Seine launches its business convention 2012. more

The 2012 issue of Econovista, the Paris Region Economic Map, is now available in poster format. more

The Paris Region Economic Development Agency has just launched an e-buzz campaign to mark the inception of Paris Region Channel, its new online TV channel. more

The Paris Region Economic Development Agency has now put its photo library online. It is open to all, providing thousands of photographs that are all free of copyright and cover a great variety of topics. more

The Paris Region boasts 30 years’ experience in the video games sector, with 120 developers and publishers, 30 specialised schools and 3,000 jobs, producing over 100 titles every year. more

PREDA took part in Paris Europlace Financial Forum in Tokyo, 2011, November 28th. more

PREDA took part in Paris Europlace Financial Forum in Singapore, 2011, November 30th. more

The first France Israel Innovation Day was held at the Finance Ministry in Paris on December 5th, 2011. more

PREDA will attend the Open Source Consortium OW2Con 2011 that will take place at Orange Labs, Issy-les-Moulineaux on November 23-24th. more

The Paris Region Economic Development Agency and the General Council of the Yvelines have jointly decided to take part in the ITS (Intelligent Transportation Systems) World Congress, a genuine showcase for the sector’s worldwide innovations. more

CaFFEET, the California-France Forum on Energy Efficiency Technologies held on October 25-26, 2011 at the PG&E auditorium in San Francisco, was organized by EDF R&D, EPRI and the Office for Science & Technology at the Consulate General of France. more

The Paris Region Economic Development Agency (PREDA) Office in Israel will be “Silver Sponsor" for the next Startup Weekend to be held in Haifa from next November 16th to 18th. more

Hubstart Paris® area: On September 8th, 2011, a delegation from the Changi Airport (Singapore) visited the Hubsart Paris area, which extends into the three départements of Seine-et Marne, Seine-Saint-Denis and Val d’Oise. more

California-France Forum on Energy Efficiency Technologies - Achieving Low-CO2 Industrial Plants more

Greater Roissy, the entrance gate for international companies: representatives of foreign embassies and institutional investors on the lookout for new market opportunities. more

Interested in inventing tomorrow’s intelligent vehicle?
Submit an application for the Yvelines’ Call for projects “Intelligent vehicle – City of the Future” more

Mr Hervé Pottier, Italy Director for the Invest In France Agency (IFA), has handed the “Prize for Best Italian Investor in France” to Mr André-Michel Ballester, CEO of SORIN GROUP since 2007. more

On Monday, July 11th, 2011, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed (USA), Paris Region Economic Development Agency Chairman and Hubstart Paris Alliance Representative Jean-Claude Detilleux, and Aéroports de Paris representative Elisabeth Le Masson; the signing took place in the presence of Bernard Anquez, Air France representative at Delta Airlines. more

BIO International Convention (BIO 2011), the foremost meeting place for biotechnology professionals, was held in Washington this year from June 27th to 30th. This 18th edition hosted over 15,500 visitors hailing from 48 US States and 65 countries. more

On June 21st, the Paris Region Economic Development Agency (PREDA) hosted a delegation of 10 German companies led by the President of the Rhineland-Palatinate Parliament as well as representatives of the Ministry of the Economy, Energy, Climatic Protection and Land Settlement. The issue of agronomical research is crucial to the Rhineland-Palatinate State, which has extensive farming land. more

Matimop and the Medicen Paris Region competitiveness cluster sign an agreement. more

During the past 20 years, Israel has secured a leading position among the major regions in the world in terms of innovation and creativity. more

Following a request from the Commercial Section of the Embassy of Brazil (SECOM), the Invest in France Agency (IFA), Paris Développement and PREDA hosted a delegation of Brazilian companies on April 11th, 12th and 13th, 2011 and organised a tour of places symbolising research and innovation in the Paris Region. more

On April 15, 2011, PRIME and L’Atelier BNP Parisbas hosted an AAGEF and ParisTech networking party in their San Francisco office. more

On April 11th, 2011, a letter of intent was signed by 6 representatives from the airport zones of Greater Roissy, France, and Greater Memphis, Tennessee, USA, in the presence of Mr AC Wharton, Mayor of Memphis and Mr Maurice Leroy, Minister of the City and Greater Paris. more

With the world’s largest industrial event taking place (6,500 exhibitors presenting 5,000 new high-tech products on exhibition grounds stretching over close to 500,000 m²), Paris Region industries are assuredly holding their own at this world-class technological showcase. more

On 10 and 11 March 2011, the Paris Region Economic Development Agency (PREDA) staged a regional healthcare tour in partnership with the Medicen Paris Region competitiveness cluster, the city of Paris, and the IAU Ile-de-France (Paris Region urban planning institute). more

In 2010, the Paris Region welcomed 243 foreign companies, up an outstanding 27% as compared to 2009, and to 22% for the rest of France. more

On March 7th and 8th, 2011, the Paris Region was pleased to host its Interreg Ecrein+ Programme European partner regions. more

The amount of participants at this 2011 edition of MIPIM (the world’s property market) was on the increase by 8% as compared to 2010: there were 18,600 participants representing 6,400 companies, hailing from 90 countries (up 11%). more

The Cloud Innovation Summit organised by the Paris Region Economic Development Agency in partnership with ALTRAN and BULL ended on a highly successful note following two days that assembled 13 major French companies and 13 American start-ups last March 17th and 18th. more

The Paris Region stands united with its Japanese friends who were just subjected to the terrible disaster that happened on March 11th along the Sendai coast. We wish to express once again our thanks to Japanese companies for their contribution to the economic development of the Paris Region more

The Agency travelled to New York from January 29th to February 4th, 2011 to conduct an exploratory mission focused on the financial sector. more

The agency organized, from 8 to 11 February 2011, canvassing and follow-up missions in Mumbai (with Nasscom) and Bangalore. more

The Barcelona MWC is the Mobile industry's most important event in Europe. For trade participants only, the 2011 edition ran from 14 to 17 February in Barcelona with 1,300 exhibitors and 60,000 visitors from 200 countries. more

This new map identifies urban planning projects which aim to integrate sustainable development objectives and to reduce the ecological footprint of the region. These districts were the winners of a competition organised by the Île-de-France Regional Council to attribute a seal of quality to “New Urban Districts”, and by the State for their designation “Eco-district”. They had to comply with strict specifications regarding energy conservation, density and urban requalification. more

On February 3rd, 2011, Hubstart Paris partners took members of the business real-estate press on an introductory tour of Greater Roissy.
The 80-minute tour took participants from Roissypole to Roissyparc International, from the Triangle de Gonesse in Paris Nord 2 to the ZAC Sud Charles de Gaulle. more

As the Mobile World Congress opens, the Paris Region is preparing to defend its mobility’s bright colours. more

This new map shows the business parks in the Paris Region that meet sustainable development criteria in terms of their management, their activities & resources, their urban planning and the facilities available to businesses and employees. more

From November 30th to December 3rd, 2010, the Paris Region Economic Development Agency took part in the Pollutec tradeshow, an event about environment-focused equipment, technology and services, organised this year in Lyon by Reed Expositions. more